“Let’s go, we still have to go eat later.”
Su Bai paused for a moment.
He didn't even give Sun Le Yan any time to react, just continued walking forward as he spoke.
Leaving Sun Le Yan standing there alone.
Dazed and confused.
He just asked, if I like him?
Wh...what does that mean?
Is he testing me? Or confirming something?
Testing, if I do like him, and then he's trying to distance himself from me gradually?
Or, confirming, if I like him, and then he'll be proactive after knowing my feelings?
She doesn't know, but Sun Le Yan feels it's more likely the former.
After all, this is the second time.
Both times, he hasn't given a definitive answer, even when asking if she likes him.
In the end, he didn't even wait for her to speak.
He just walked away.
Isn't that telling enough? Perhaps, the answer doesn't even matter to Su Bai.
An immense sense of loneliness engulfed Sun Le Yan.
Despite that, she still wanted to say something from the bottom of her heart.
“Yes, I like you, but what’s your answer?”
She’s the kind of person who, once she's decided, she'll grasp it tightly. If it's hers, she’ll hold on. If not, she’ll let go and draw a clear line. She doesn’t want, doesn’t want to end up in a situation like this.
This kind of blurry mess…
Sigh.
Sun Le Yan let out a heavy sigh. She suddenly found Su Bai so mysterious, so mysterious.
Mysterious, she couldn’t see through him, couldn’t touch him, and didn't know what kind of thoughts he had.
Is this what they call, the more you want to see clearly and grasp it, the more everything fades into nothingness, slowly slipping away…
She felt like she needed to find a chance to get things straight.
If Su Bai truly didn't have any feelings or interest in her, maybe this shouldn't continue.
Let’s just say, this hanging of the wishing tag, this meal, this whole date, was just a show for the sake of appearances.
Although there's some reluctance, she feels that not doing so would be a great deal of harm to everyone involved.
She sighed again, a hint of disappointment hanging in her voice, and followed Su Bai's pace.
The viewers in the livestream, at this moment, also went completely crazy.
——What the heck! What’s going on! What is Su Bai doing???！！！
——No, even I, a straight dude, can see that Le Yan is practically about to blurt out ‘I want to kiss you’, and Su Bai, tell me, you ran away?
——What’s the situation here? No, Su Bai, don't you like Le Yan?
——Although I don’t want to admit it…but, it’s very possible.
——My brain is fried, did my BaiYan ship just sink? Su Bai, you've been so close to Le Yan these past two days, it's either sweet nothings or jokes, you tell me you don’t like Le Yan?
——Is there a possibility that Su Bai is like this with everyone, maybe we're misunderstanding? It’s just that he hasn’t spoken much to other girls these past few days, so we haven't noticed?
——Impossible! What about the old star? I don’t believe it!
——I don’t believe it either, Su Bai, if you dare to sink the ship, I’ll curse you, curse you every day!
For a moment.
The netizens who were glued to the livestream, none of them expected this sudden twist, while they were enjoying the sweetness.
Isn’t this just pure nonsense?
What is Su Bai doing?
However, what nobody noticed was that Su Bai, who was walking in front, quietly took out his phone.
He sent a message, “Are you ready?”
At the same time.
On a wide, open field on a mountain not far from the scenic area.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry!”
“Don’t dilly-dally, it's already noon, don’t you know what day it is today?”
“It’s the day our young master’s iron tree finally blossoms!”
“If we dawdle, it’ll be dark soon. What if we miss it?”
The familiar Chen Butler was directing a fleet of trucks and workers, unloading the large quantity of fireworks from the trucks.
He was in a frenzy.
He was afraid that he would miss Su Bai's plan because he didn’t make it in time.
He’d been with the Su family for most of his life.
He’d watched Su Bai grow up from childhood, so how could he have ever imagined that one day he’d receive a request from Su Bai to set up a date.
To put it in the words of the old master.
This is simply an ancestor's grave smoking incense! This kid finally got his head straight!
How dare he delay even for a minute.
Sure enough!
Sure enough, being on a dating show is effective. Only a few days in?!
The young master has changed so much, he’s almost unrecognizable.
Good!
Simply excellent!
Ding-dong.
The phone gave off a message alert, he picked it up to see, it was a prompt from Su Bai, then he looked at the workers who were unloading.
【Don’t worry young master, you just bring the lady up the mountain, I promise the timing will be perfect!】
The message had just been sent.
The cheerful ringing of the phone rang out. But this time it wasn't Su Bai, but the old master, Su Bai’s father.
“Hello, old master? What’s wrong?”
Chen Butler didn’t hesitate to answer the phone.
He just heard an excited voice coming from the other end a second later.
“Damn! Really, old Chen? My damn son, did you really prepare a date for him?”
“Yes, yes, old master, it’s true!”
Chen Butler couldn't help but be taken aback, knowing that the old master was asking about this, he quickly replied with a smile.
“Good! Good, good! Good, good. My ancestor’s grave is smoking incense, father, this grandson of yours has finally come to his senses!”
“Old Chen, hurry, hurry, tell me how my bastard son is planning this? Don’t make it some half-baked plan that ends up messing things up!”
Su Jiang Cheng pressed for an answer.
Chen Butler thought for a moment, then explained about the flower sea and the fireworks display at night.
Slap!
On the other end of the call, he heard the excited sound of a table being slammed, then Su Jiang Cheng responded with satisfaction.
“Good! Not bad, not bad, this kid knows a bit about romance.
He has his old man’s emotional intelligence when he was chasing his wife.”
Chen Butler: “…”
However, hearing this, Chen Butler fell silent.
He couldn’t help but recall those young days when he was young, and the old master was young too.
The old master insisted on taking him to pursue the wife, to confess to her.
Honestly, there wasn’t much to it, the wife liked the old master, just say some sweet nothings, confess quietly and it’s over.
But the old master didn’t know where he got his hands on a firecracker, he insisted on lighting it up at night, saying that it looked beautiful and romantic!
Before he even confessed, he lit it. Because he was confessing in the wild, who knows, he casually threw it and it landed on cow dung.
It exploded into a million pieces!
He even wanted to say, Madam, you were willing to accept your confession back then, it was true love!
Luckily.
It’s not like that now.
After all, even though the young master and the old master have practically the same temperament, at least this time it’s him setting off the firecrackers, not something like cow dung flying everywhere!
“Old Chen, why aren’t you talking, what, you think my confession wasn't romantic back then?”
“No, no, old master, it’s very romantic, the young master will definitely inherit your romance and win over the lady!”
“That’s right! As long as this kid blooms, then later you send him a message, if he succeeds, bring them both home, let me have a look. Remember this, I didn't discuss it with him, he must bring her back!”
“Yes, old master!”
Chen Butler agreed and immediately started urging his team again.
Just hope nothing unexpected happens!
.......
On the other side.
Under the wishing tree.
“Hey, I don’t understand, why do most wishing trees have to be ginkgo trees?”
Su Bai and Sun Le Yan had already reached the wishing tree that the old lady mentioned.
In front of them was a huge ginkgo tree.
The golden leaves were like little fans, swaying in the wind. On every branch, there hung wishing tags tied with red thread.
Every name written on them.
Were couples who witnessed their love here.
“Ginkgo trees, is there something wrong with them?”
Sun Le Yan had regained her composure, she had decided to confess her true feelings to Su Bai during dinner.
“Just feels stinky.”
Su Bai grinned, “You know, under the witness of a ginkgo tree, love will become stinky!”
“This is called, a shared love of stink? You know, thinking about it, ginkgo trees are quite suitable to be wishing trees.”
“.......”
Normally, Sun Le Yan would have laughed.
But now, she couldn’t find the joy in her heart.
Stinky love…but that's love, right?
Unfortunately, she may not even get a stinky love.
Su Bai, are you like this with everyone?
But do you know that you could easily give people the wrong impression by acting this way?
She couldn't help but think to herself again.
And at that moment, a hand was placed on her shoulder.
Looking up, she saw Su Bai standing in front of her, looking at her with eyes as calm as still water.
“Don’t be unhappy.”
“It’s still early, maybe, we should hang a wishing tag first?”
Sun Le Yan’s beautiful eyes filled with confusion.
She didn't know what that meant.
What does ‘It’s still early’ mean, how come Su Bai said that?
Forget it.
Stop thinking.
Hanging a wishing tag, then hang it.
If it can somehow bring a bit of stinky love, that’s fine too.
Sun Le Yan squeezed out a smile and nodded.
“Okay, let’s go hang it.”
So.
Under the warmth of the sun and the gentle breeze, the ginkgo leaves swayed slowly, as if welcoming them.
They wrote down each other's names on the wishing tag.
Like the other tags, they hung it up.
Swaying in the wind.
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